Uncle has his baseball cards. Both his own, vast collection, and the ones Chuck just sent in the mail.
Topics include: NFL Draft, baseball cards, Chuck’s mailer, reprinted cards, Mets card collection, Shohei Ohtani cards are hot, apps to price cards, grading and slabbing of cards, autographs at the stadium, Dodger Stadium, TikTak progress, reselling shirts and other items, checking price with apps, dragon fruit plants, gophers, growing plants in Southern California, Fernando Valenzuela, Brooklyn Dodgers, Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, new fast knuckle ball pitchers, Nixon, presidential libraries
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You are listening to Uncle the podcast. My name is Aaron. I’m the nephew in-law. Here with me is the star of the show, Uncle.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen. 4 101 we are at tonight. Now we’re going to talk about Let’s get started with the draft. Just been watching the rest of it for the rest of the night. The NFL draft is on. It was on and they’re doing my Rams are doing their ways of how they drafted the way they go. So they’re drafting well. Is that the Yeah, they’re drafting pretty well. Okay. They got a if only I think they they picked the tight end. Yes. As they always do. They always do. And back at it. I think a wide receiver. They got a wide receiver. I think they really I don’t know if they picked I’m not sure about that one, but there was something else that they were going at. They got I don’t know who they got in round one. I just saw the round two the tight end guy. Yeah, I know. You weren’t around. been around. I know. I know. I get updated with these things. Okay. So, that’s the draft. The draft is ongoing. Good. Tomorrow starts at 9 our time. Yeah. 12:00 their time. Tune in everybody. Tune in if you watching it. That’s important. So, yeah, we’ve got the NFL draft. Uh, Uncle, do we want to talk about our mail, too? Do we want to get into that? A mail. Yes. Unless we’re going to get into this mail while we’ve gotten this baseball cards. Pass these mail cards around. Pass the cards around. What are you doing? So I kick playing with those knobs again. Well, yeah. Get the You’re not doing this tonight. I I’m not doing this. You’re playing with your knobs again? Well, I Yeah, a little bit. I I’m trying not to do it too much, but I probably already have. I know. You and the knobs. You and the knobs. You forgot to give the phone number, too. 319-527-5016 is the number to call. There it is. In case you want to join in. Yeah, you may call. Uh, and Uncle’s getting ready to talk about the baseball cards. He he got through with the draft pretty quick. But, uh, hey, baseball card time. That’s fine by me. Plus, you got the video you can show people, right? Yes, exactly. So, we’ll be doing that here on our stream. We’re streaming out on YouTube. We’re on Tic Tac. And actually, before we go any further, let me see if I can make anything of uh where the heck are we? I want to see what might be going on on Tic Tac real fast. I got the live monitor. Um but yeah, everybody will be able to see the cards. I’m going to show them. Um Oh, look. Almost nothing. Okay, that’s good. Nobody there. That’s not That’s what it’s fine. I’ve been the lords of Tik Tok aren’t happy with what I’m doing. So that’s Well, that’s that. You got them on your phone. I I’ve got it on my phone. I do. Anyway, check it out, dudes.
Baseball cards. These came from our producer, Chuck. Chuck, send us these cards. Look at all these different ones. We got all these. We’ve got these ones over here. And we also got some crazy stickers you sent, Chuck. These stickers are interesting. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I threw in I threw in some stuff for fun. But what happened is that night that we had the conversation, you know, uh you guys gave me a list of a whole bunch of names and I said, “Listen, if you send me some Mets and a couple, you know, a Nolan Ryan or whatever, I’ll be thrilled. Uh you guys sent me a couple of Nolan Ryan and a big stack of Mets from like 88, 89, 90, uh 91. And so that was great. Those were the ones I was actually looking for cuz I know I had them. I had to go searching for them and I found them. So Well, I hear you. Yeah, I hear you got a giant box of stuff because that’s what I heard. Yeah, I got a lot of very big box of Mets, all kinds of players stand right here behind us. Yeah, right behind us and behind here. So, we went through some of those and that’s what we uh went through to send the mailer to you, Chuck, with those Mets cards and some of those other ones that we see too. It came from the giant pile. Yeah, that’s where they came from. Giant pile. So, and I knew you wanted some more show Otani cards, so I made sure that you got, you know, a few of them. And uh in the third mailer, did you get a couple of Nolan Ryan cards back? Because I sent you a couple of doubles. I had I You know what? Let’s go through these cards. Go through them now. Well, I don’t think I seen them uh double trying to handle cuz that’ll tell me if you got the third mailer because the third mailer I sent a little later after I got the box. I said, “Oh boy, you guys sent me a lot of stuff.” So, I wanted to send you some cool stuff of value. Yeah. Uh because your your your list was was pretty easy. I missed like one guy on your list, I think. Yeah, I know. The people that you guys mentioned. Yeah, the Chapman. Chapman. The Chapman. The oneap. We need Chapman. Yeah. If you can find them that got him has a copy of them. Ask if you can bring them up. We’ll see. We’ll see. See, I’m I’m asking Chuck. You? Oh, yeah. No, if I can if I can find one, I’ll send it to you. But, you know, I I haven’t run across them yet, you know. I mean, I I I can’t buy all the cards and I can’t I can’t trade for all of them yet either. No, no, no. That’s the main one I was looking for because something to do. Let’s uh here I’ll go through all the cards that we have so we just know what what made it to us. So, let’s see. We’ve got a Buster Posie. Yeah, that’s a nice bunch of posies. San Francisco. Aaron said Buster Posie, so I said, “Okay, no problem. I got that.” Now, here’s the fun thing. I also sent out for listeners who were supportive of the network, uh, if they gave me an address and gave me a favorite team and a couple of favorite players, guess what? They also got little mailers, but theirs only had, you know, a couple of cards in it. Yours had a bunch more. And I tried to give you Dodgers. I tried to give you the stuff you had listed. Uh, and I gave you some stuff for fun, too, because I had some Looney Tunes cards. I had, uh, those neat little stickers that have all kinds of crazy things on them. That’s them. So, you know, I just kind of stuffed things in there. So, I was hoping you guys would have fun with it. Yeah. No, it was definitely fun. It was the first time I went out, I saw the package and I went to the mailbox. I saw the box in the mail box. I took it out, came right up here at the standings, and I was looking to him like I always do. I I I look into him. And then Mr. Mr. Sidekick here comes in the back of me. What do you got? Where you going? That’s exactly I said we got things from Chuck. That’s exactly how it happened. Exactly how it happened. And that’s something else happened. Oh, I can picture it. Yeah, we looked Okay, that’s all right. Yeah. But you see, both of you guys kept mentioning names that night, right? So, I’m sitting there scribbling them down fast as I can and uh and and so, you know, I know you got uh mo most of the guys you asked for, you know. Yeah. Otani cards are selling like crazy though. They’re they’re they’re every Otani card sells, you know, constantly. So, you know, that’s a there’s a big market for him right now. But, um some of those other guys, you know, you asked for some strange guys, too. So, I made sure to include the the oddballs. We’re We’re strange. We’re strange guys. So, we asked for strange guys. That’s how it goes. Uh, let me go through the list here. I’m going to So, we had that Buster Posie him in San Francisco is like some sort of like memorial thing of him holding holding a ball up above his head. I know what that’s We’ve got uh Dalton rushing from the Dodgers. Um I I’m having trouble reading it, but it’s Dalton rushing. We got him. It’s a newer card. We’ve got uh who’s this? Wills. Mory Wills. This isn’t This is dated 1962, but it’s like a reissue of a 1962 card. Turn back the clock. Those were the Nolan Ryan cards that we sent you were like that too, Chuck, where those style of card was a rep. Right. Right. You know, some stuff was reprints, some stuff was, you know, new. And I I I tried to mix it up good. And Mory wills I just added in cuz he’s like, you know, Hall of Famer guy. That’s why. Okay. So, let’s see what else we’ve got. This is Oh, this is a playing card. An ace of spades. Roger Clemens. Yeah. No, I saw that. I said, “What a spades card.” That’s different. Yeah, that is different. I I saw that one right away. So, yeah, that’s interesting. We have that. Uh here’s another looks like another Dodger. Yes, it’s Oh, Mookie Bats. Mookie Mookie. And it’s sort of uh it’s it’s horizontally oriented the front of the card, which is unusual for a baseball card. So there he is, right? It’s like he’s out on the field. Um we’ve got a Chicago Cubs. Who’s this? Mitch Williams. Okay. Mitch Williams. Yeah. I believe you guys mentioned Mitch Williams. Yeah. That’s why he’s in there. Yeah, you did. I want to say we did we send you Mitch Williams cards, too? I thought we did. Or maybe I’m thinking of somebody else. I don’t remember. Wait, we got No, there’s another guy. Yeah, there’s another guy with a similar name on the Mets you sent me. That That’s That’s what you’re thinking of. Here’s Mitch Rangers. You got the Rangers card for Mitch Williams in addition to the Cubs. So, there he is again. Carl Carlton Fisk. Uh this is like a red and orange card. The Boston White Socks. Carlton Fisk. Um we’ve got Yeah, another Hall of Famer. Oh, a second Fisk card of him on the White Socks again. So, two cards of him so far. 1990 highlight of Carlton Fisk. So, there’s a third for Fisk. And this is some highlight. These look good on video. These cards, they they show up pretty well on video, I got to say. So, anyway, um what else? Somebody slide. Is this Buster Posie again? Yeah, another Buster Posie. It shows him sliding into home or a base. It looks like he’s sliding into a home plate. Um, so there’s another Buster Posie. Giants once again. Another Carlton Fisk. White Socks. This one’s in like a plastic wrapper. There we go. So, Carlton Fisk is back. We’ve got Oh, here he is. Here’s Show Otani as a Dodger. Show Otani as a Dodger. That’s him. Um, so yeah, we do have I made sure to give you Yeah, I made sure to give you Dodgers and Angels Otanis. So you had both. Oh, there’s an Angels. Otani. Well, here’s here’s uh here’s an interesting one. A National League leaders that features Otani, Schwarber, and Sodto all on the card. So I did ask for Schwarber. You threw in Otani there. And Sodto makes his way in there because he’s on this list of what is this for home runs or something. Yeah, this is a top home run guys which Schworber tops for this one. Um, so that’s something we got a joker card. Just a typical playing card with What is this? That was a joke. The king on the bic. That’s a joke. That I was thinking that might have been the joke. Is the joker a joke, uncle? Yeah, that’s because there’s no pen. That’s not a card. That’s not a baseball card. That’s a joker. Get what I mean? The joker’s joking us. Yeah. Well, plus I wanted to pad the cards to make sure nothing happened to them, you know. So, I put stuff around them to make sure no, they wouldn’t get banged up or anything in the mail. Um, so I added the Joker card and a couple other things, you know, just to pad them a little. Oh, we’ve got somebody in the chat here. Ken Vasquez 548 asking uh you guys asking, “Do you guys ever go to the stadium before the game to hound the players for autographs?” I I would love to, but I never can get there. Nobody wants to go. He’s saying that players would uh would avoid the crowd by going through the alternative entrance if they were hung over. Uh I I Have you ever done that? trying to get autographs on. I tried to, but there there was no way. You can’t get them once you can get to your seat. Yeah. Or unless you got a good seat down below, then you can get in there. Then you can see them. Hey, can you give me an autograph? Ken wanted to know if we’re up to that. So, yeah. Uncle tried. Uncles tried to do that. I mean, but we had to have good seats. It’s all about the seats. It’s all about getting the good seats to get a good uh auto grip. The seats, the seats that are real good in Dodger Stadium are the outfield. Like I remember left field, man, it is wild back there. Everybody’s drunker than a skunk. It’s a party time out there. Oh man, they’re drunk. Oh, drunk. I thought you said skunk. Yeah, I did. Uh they’re drunk as one. Um Dodger Stadium is much more a party atmosphere than Angel Stadium. Angel Stadium, the Big A is a little lame. I know. I’ve noticed that when I was what? When I was at the stadium. When I went to a game. Yeah. I went to a game. It’s fun to go. I to a couple of those. Good for the kids. And but but it was lame. As you say, it wasn’t like the Dodger stadium. It’s different. Let me go through the rest of these cards. We got Get through the rest of the cards. Got another This is Schwarber yet again from the Phillies. This is a small like old style card like tiny like sort of thinner and uh little things. This is him. Phillies once again. Yeah, they make a lot of minis now. Yeah. Yeah. Those like sort of throwback style card. I don’t know. Here he is. Yeah. It’s like the tobacco cards. It’s Trey Turner as a Philly after he left the Dodgers. We need to find him as a Dodger now. But here he is as a Philadelphia Philly. Oh, that was him. Turner. Yeah, this is him, Uncle. You know this guy, right? Oh, the You seen this guy before? Trey Turner. Oh, yes. Yes. That’s Remember when the Dodgers had Turner and Turner and it was a little confusing. Oh, yes. Yes. Now, two Turners. Wait, wait. He was one of them. Yeah, he was one of Yeah. Yeah, that was your Turner. So, let’s see here. We got a couple more cards. We’ve got Oh, this one. Oh, I like this one. This is Street Fighter from the movie Street Fighter from the 90s. It looks to be a still from the movie. It’s this it’s the speedboat going through the water describes on the back of like what’s going on in the scene. It’s pretty I like that one, Chuck. This is fun. So yeah, I thought Uncle would like some of those odd cards in there. So, you know, and you like them, too. So, there you go. I was wondering what that was. Yeah. I I wasn’t looking at him closely at these at these. Street Fighter 2, the the movie based on the arcade game from the ‘9s. So, that’s what that is. Oh. Well, and you guys do those video game streams. That was it. Those video game streams. Yes. And we played Street Fighter 2 on one of those streams. So, how many was that? That’s That’s all the baseball cards that we have in this pile. And then it’s these stickers that you sent, which are also fun, but no more baseball cards. No, no, that’s all. Okay. So, you’re missing You’re missing at least one mailer that’s still on its way. Oh, it’s still That’s what’s missing. It’s still coming. Oh, so I got some more. You still have more coming. Okay. Mhm. Something to look forward to. Okay, then I have to look. I’m looking through the mail. Nothing yet. Very exciting. Something to mail, man. Now, Chuck, we did send that pile to you. What What uh how how did that go? Were you happy to find any of the things that we did send or or what what are your thoughts on the things that we sent you? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Every everything in that box was was great because I need to rebuild my Mets collection, you know, and uh the only unhappy thing is you sent me Bobby Bonia, but that’s all right. Oh, yes. Yes. Bubble and he was a um he wasn’t even I I sent that as a little bit of a joke because that one wasn’t he a bet. Yeah. Well, he wasn’t a Met. He was. Yeah. He wasn’t He wasn’t Met. He wasn’t He was But on the cards that I sent, he wasn’t even he was on other teams. And I just thought it was funny because he comes up so often in conversation on the show. I’m like, “Oh, I got to put a couple of these in.” Oh, what did you do? So, I did that. I knew you’d appreciate that. So, yeah, cuz the Mets were paying him. The Mets paid him off for like 20 years after he stopped playing for him because he was so bad. And every time they traded him to another team, they they uh they they ended up paying part of this massive salary to the other team. Oh. So, but they uh you guys sent me a couple of them on the Pirates. I was like, “Okay, I did whatever.” But Oh, yeah. He did. You did. He’s picking them out and I’m Well, oh, it looks like uh I didn’t know what he was doing. Ken is there in the chat again and he’s giving us more uh tips on how to get these autographs. He says, “Yeah, he’s saying like back in the day at certain stadiums, if you would go to the stadium 7 to 8 hours before the game, the home team players would have to check in at the stadium before the games and then that’s where you could hound them.” Hound? Oh, that’s pretty early, Uncle. You ever do that? We never get that early. We never get there that early. That’s I mean, well, some stadiums around here, we have to get at that point that early just to do that. You’re talking about he’s talking about that’s that’s like a job now. Yeah. No, the stadiums on the East Coast, right? You go like 2 or 3 hours early and you can catch these guys in batting practice and then you can try and call them over. You just go all the way down to the field cuz nobody’s seated yet. Right. Right. You know, if you can get access to the stadium, but it’s hard to do and uh very few people get it. But believe me, there’s plenty of Tik Tok videos of people getting signatures, too, especially kids. But uh but there’s plenty of signatures being gotten and you know the kids getting it but they’re getting it for their dad. You know what I mean? It’s pretty funny. Sure. Um but uh yeah, they go like 2 three hours early and these guys are in batting practice and some of them are just standing around like if they’re a pitcher they can only warm up so many pitchers on the side, you know. So like some of those guys are just standing there and some of them will come over if you call to them, you know. Sure. So that’s something you can do on the east coast. Now, I don’t know how the security is on the West. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. I’ve never tried that. I mean, that sounds like a good suggestion, but man, also, I don’t know if I have enough time to do that kind of thing, especially now these days, but it’s a good idea. It’s a good idea. So, I do I do get started some uh No one else has these basketball cards or hockey cards. You guys got any of them? Yeah, you have those. I have them. You do? I got I got I got some I got a little bit of hockey, a little bit of basketball. Not much. Oh, you did? A little bit. Yeah. Uh you got quite a bit of basketball uncle from the ‘9s. Yeah. I was going to go through the basketball if someone if they’re interested in trading some of them. If you’re interested, Chuck, we got quite a few. Well, the ’90s basketball. Yeah, the ‘9s basketball. you might want to look at the resale on them because a lot of that stuff is way up because you got Jordan and a whole bunch of guys playing early on or even rookie cards, right? That are worth a lot of money. Oh, right now, you know. So, oh, the basketball ones. We got to go through them. We got to go through. Yeah, we should we might have to go through them now. There’s so many cards, but we might need to go in and do the work and pick through them and see if we can find something good because I I’m sure I got a quite a bit of few good stuff in there. That’s got to be mixed in. Yeah, they’re mixed in there some. Well, you got Apple tech, right? Oh, you’re talking about how just show the pictures to AI and let it let the AI tell you if it’s valuable. Well, there’s the AI, but there’s also apps specifically designed to go search prices. Okay. Oh my gosh. Well, I mean, I have seen ads. I You know what is interesting? When I am on Tik Tok, I get ads specifically for um shirts at the thrift store because this is what I do. I go and I get thrift shirts. I resell them. So, it knows that. And so, it’s like, here, get this app. And what you do is you just wave your camera at it, and it’ll show you, you know, what’s what happens to be worth at any given time. So, I I’ve seen that app. So, of course, there’s one for cards. Well, we got to get those then. I think that’s what we’re going to have to get. You want the Do we have to get the apps? Can we get the apps? Where do we get them? Uh, they’re out there. Yeah. Cool, man. Cuz I could use them. Because like you’re saying, I got expensive cards. I want to see what I really do have. I don’t even know. I’ve collected all these cards and I don’t know what’s good and what’s the good ones and I like It would be nice just to have an app where you just go card by card. You hold it in front of a camera and then it tells you uh $30. Oo, we got a good one here. Hold it up. $1. Like, okay, another one of these. two cents. You can get that from my Well, that’s what I’m telling you. There is There is an app that does that. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. It’s There’s exactly an app that does that. Of course. Yeah, I want to get it. Yep. Want to get it. Yeah. Okay, Uncle, put that in the to get app list. We definitely going to need that one cuz I’m going to have to go through cuz if get that, we’re going to go through a lot of stuff here. Mhm. because I I want to see, of course, like I said, what is my cost? And I’m gonna hold back the expensive ones that are good. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, yeah. I got to separate cuz I got to have them separated and then I can trade them what off of ones I have like doubles or whatever. Truly valuable cards. We will put them up as their own online auction that you buy that individual card. Maybe we’ll even go to card shop and get it graded by somebody. Maybe we’ll do that. Yeah. And that’ll help us list it and then uh we’ll we’ll definitely do that. Yeah. So, we’ll see. But yeah, this this just goes to show, Uncle, we need to further our efforts in becoming full-time resellers. I mean, we do it part-time. Let’s just let’s just only do that all the time. Well, but I’m only doing it if you uh up for it and have the time. Yeah, that’s the thing. Like I Yeah, go and do that. Let’s just scrap this day job nonsense. It’s no good anyway. I mean, I’m I’m actually being I mean, maybe I don’t know. We’ll see. But for now, uh we’re going to just do a little bit of everything as we have been doing. We’re going to resell. We’re going to do a regular job. We’re going to do everything else. We’re going to keep doing that for a while. And but we’ll get to that other thing that we’re talking about. We will. We’ll get to it. We’ll get that thing. Um, let’s see here. We are taking calls if anybody wants taking calls on Let that Go’s wing. Let’s go, people. 3195275016. Anybody can call that. I did see uncle uh [ __ ] Digital was uh watching the show on Tic Tac. So, we had him over there. Oh. Oh, I mentioned him about the draft on his Chiefs. How do you think he did? I gave him a text, but I haven’t hoed. Oh, we do have some likes on the tic tac. So, thank you everybody. You’re asking [ __ ] how he likes the Chiefs draft picks. Yeah, so far. Let us know, [ __ ] Drop say that in the Tic Tac chat or say that or even call in and let us know. We would like to know that. Tic Tac, Uncle the Podcast. Come on, everybody. We need to post some new videos. I haven’t posted a video in like over a week, Uncle. Well, well, it’s because you were out doing something and you’re out throw in the corners doing this other stuff and you get around doing all this stuff. That’s exactly it. Yeah. You’re around. I’m here. I’m here waiting, but you’re not around. I know. And that’s the problem. We’ll fix this situation over the weekend. We’ll post something. We’ll maybe we’ll have you make food again because that’s what I still waiting on that meatloaf. Somebody go get that meat. We’re all waiting on the meat though. We’re all waiting. Yeah. Well, that’s the big one. I can I can meatloaf. That’s going to push us to million followers probably. Yeah, it will that a lot. You watch you watch. You probably will. I don’t even know how many views the cactus is up to. It’s other than That’s over the top. Pass a million views. Past the top. Past. I think we’ve mentioned that on here that the cactus has gone beyond a million views. Yeah, we did. We did. Excited. We have to get something different. I I’m I’m thinking to a point of let’s get something different to say, but we haven’t had to go to the play store and get these things to do something different. Something different. Yeah, that’s what people come to our um Tic Tac for is something something a little bit different. No, indeed. I think we provide that service as content creators is something different. It’s the one thing I think maybe we’re able to do. Uh, so I’m proud. I’m proud of what we’re doing, Uncle. We’re making content. If we ever get crazy drunk beer, Bob, come. We got the drink still in the fridge. We do. I have to invite him back soon because Yeah, we have those uh we have two more drinks that he uh he obviously has already reviewed them on his show, Buming with Bobcat and Bumlinebob.com. Uh so check those out. But we we want to have him here on our show where he can help us understand what we’re drinking. So I’ll invite him. We have that uh what was it? The uh fourloo camo and the other what’s the other drink? Oh. Oh 2020. M 2020 dragon fruit we got. That’s the one I’m waiting to taste. That is one I’m waiting to taste cuz I like dragon fruit. It’s a good flavor. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. I’m always surprised. And I’m still waiting to put that tree up. The tree. Get that get that Christmas tree. No, no, that that that tree and get them get the stuff to build it. I’m been waiting. You’re ready to build a tree. That that um dragon fruit tree. Okay. I’ve been waiting. This is a landscaping issue. Landscapable issue we’re having here. A a a neighbor/friend gave us a dragon fruit plant, which is a succulent plant, and they grow in the ground here. And uncle’s been asking me to plant in the ground. I haven’t because to do it the right way, you really want to build a trellis like out of wood or something so that the plant climbs up it. And then when it gets at the top, it sort of cascades over like a wide. You make it wide at the top so it cascades over and then it holds fruit up in the air so it’s not on the ground because it’ll just crawl across the ground otherwise. So let’s let’s um let’s What are we doing this weekend? Oh, probably nothing. Let’s go to the store and get that stuff. Okay. And at least get it the stuff. Yeah. I I think I think I know where I would plan it. And I know basically how I would make the trellis. I just All right. Well, we’ll do that for this weekend. There we go. We got our plans in order. Very good. I’ve been waiting for dragon fruit. Also, I’d like to drink the MD20 dragon fruit as well. Well, yeah, that’s waiting. That’s why I’m waiting on Crazy Bob. Get him in. We need Bob now. I need him to come on the show. Well, he was your Yeah, we did. We did the 99. What was it? The uh we did the um the the Cole 45. the Colt 45 item, but I like to get them drink the last one they got in the fridge. The new Colt 45, which was clearly different than the old. I definitely noticed a difference. So, that was interesting. Oh, we got action in the crack room. Once again, it’s Ken once again. He’s saying, “Isn’t it too risky to let it grow in the ground in the Inland Empire because the gophers will mess it up or you guys don’t have gophers at your place?” No, we don’t. I think it’s safer to go raise beds. No. Um, we have not had There are gophers around here, but I haven’t had problems with them going after our stuff, and we have a lot of stuff planted here, so I would be confident in growing it in the ground. You could do a raised bed or you could even grow it in a pot. I’ve seen these videos online where there’s this uh specialized nursery that makes these really big pots and they they are fully there are dragon fruit. Like here’s this variety of dragon fruit. Here’s that. We have these. You could get that. But it’s a giant pot. They build the trellis in the pot and then that’s how you buy it and they they bring it to you. So lots of different options. I’d probably put it in the ground and then I’d build the uh trellis right in the ground. We may do that this weekend. Yeah. So, that’s a I’m trying to remember. Ken, you’re you’re our neighbor uh around these parts, right? You’re you’re out here in like San Bino or something, I think, if I remember. Uh let’s see here. Yeah, it’s Ken still there. So, dragon fruits, everybody. Uh the kind of things that you can grow when you’re out here in California. One of the benefits of being out here is you can just throw something like that in the ground and it will grow. We had we had them in orange. Well, neighbors had them planted. No, we had a wall. Remember we did it on a new and on our By we you mean that you would walk around the neighborhood, reach over the wall to people who hadn’t planted in our backyard in our house. Okay. But on our old house, the small house. Yeah, I know. I know. When we lived in Orange was did a neighbor have it and it crawled over the wall to our house. We made it or of a dragon fruit or was it there? It might have been there. We never ended up playing a dragon fruit in in orange. Well, you are I I know I I know it was it was hooked on to the wall. I know what you’re remembering. You’re you’re remembering um we did a grape vine, I believe, and then there were neighbors who had them and you would walk around the neighborhood and and where you could grab fruits. No, no. That grew over the walls and up and over and that might have been one of them. No, no, you never do over was in the backyard. Okay. Well, I I I don’t know what was grown, but it was something in our backyard. We had a Yeah. a fruit of something. We had fruit and and it was and it was grown like the dragon fruit hooked on to the wall. We we I don’t know if it was dragon fruit, but it was something. I think it was a grape vine we did. Yeah, I think it Yeah, I believe that’s what that was. That was trellised in the back wall that we had, I believe, if I remember. I know we didn’t do a dragon fruit there. And we still haven’t done one here, but we need to rectify that. And it better be this weekend. Um, oh man, I’m down low. Ken is saying, “I planted several avocado, fruit trees, agave plants, and those gophers mess me up big time.” Gophers. Oh, yeah. He’s up by Ontario. Awesome. Okay, cool. Awesome, Ken. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Thanks for uh joining us here. Yeah. Okay. So, he’s had problems with the gophers. know that they are a problem and that the big box stores have a lot of um you know like pests products to deal with the gophers. But luckily we haven’t had issues with them ourselves. I want to keep it that way. We’ll see. Gophers uncle they’re a scourge don’t I’ve seen little holes in them. The dogs when I walk them they smelled them underneath. Even uh Keon, he goes nuts. Yeah, they’ll definitely smell the smell them suckers down there. She’s He’s going for lizards right now. Lots of lizards on the walk. Lizards all over the place out here. Lots of lots of wildlife out here, isn’t there? all sorts of crazy stuff. Crawling around and flying around and living in a garden and wanting to eat everything that you might grow in a garden or so. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s see. Let me check the tic tac once again because I want to see. Last time I checked, we were getting some likes. Uh [ __ ] had been there. We have eight. Yeah. Let’s see. It looks like Oh, let me check the Ochelli. Oh, we haven’t had a lot of action in the Ochelli chat room. It looks like uh it looks like things kind of level off. What’s 12 to 12? What total viewers? Wait diamonds. I eight diamonds. Somebody might have given us a diamond, but I Who who was it? Who was it? I see that. Eight. What was a diamond? Uh, okay. If anybody on Tic Tac actually dropped those diamond things on us, thank you. Yeah, thank you, whoever it was. We got We But it doesn’t seem like we have enough likes that people would be dropping those diamond things, but maybe they did. Maybe they I’m getting a little confused. Well, the diamonds I think diamonds I think you can use for other stuff. Hey, listen. You got a call. Uh, so I wanted to bring them on. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. Bring him on cuz we’ve been waiting on her on calls. Bring the call in. Bring the call in. No problem. There we go. Here we go. Hey, man. This is Ed. And uh Oh, I got a report. I got a little I got a few cards, too. Oh, you do? And uh I won’t go over them all. There’s a handful of cards. And what do you need? What do you need? Pete Rose card, which is one of my grandfathers and my uh favorite non-Dodger players back in the day. But best of all, and Chuck Chuck must have had a little intuition or something, he sent me a Fernando Valenuela card. Oh, yeah. Who was an amazing Dodger pitcher. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember that in the 80s. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, sadly, he just died last year or the year before. And so that that one uh and I that’s a cool one right there. I I knew that since you were a Dodger fan at that time, you had to like Valenuela. I mean, that’s why you got Yeah. So, you know, I and and everybody’s little package was different. I tried to customize it, you know, based on what they liked and the stuff that they said. So, you know, I asked everybody and that was my way of saying thanks for, you know, helping out. Uh, so, you know what I mean? No, I I loved it. I I loved getting that that whole little package, man. I It was great. I It was It was a kick. And when I saw Fernando, I was like, “Oh, man. How did Chuck not to send that one?” you know, cuz sadly he did die. I think he had a liver. I think he might have had a drinking issue and he ran his liver into the ground and he kind of died too young. Died last year or the year before, I forget which. Uh, but he was a broadcaster on the Spanish speaking channel down there until he couldn’t do it anymore. And I never Yeah, I was just really sad for to hear that he’d passed. And I even knew he’d just cool to have that card as well. So, thanks, man. There you go. I haven’t I I haven’t known he drank though. And uh Oh, shoot. I had something else I was going to pass. Oh, you guys talked about uh somebody when you’re in Orange, you had uh some fruit growing over your fence. When I lived in Whittier, California as a child around 1970 or so, we had a neighbor with a pomegranate tree and I could climb up on the wall and pick as many as I wanted. Man, it was just great. Then my grandmother made this delicious syrup out of it. Wow. Syrup. Pomegranate. Pomegranate syrup. Yeah. Yeah. Did Did you have a Did you have the experience to know that you know you were in the hometown of Richard Nixon when you lived in Whittier there? No. No. It’s your Belinda. I had none of that knowledge at the time. No, it’s it’s your talking about your Belinda. Chuck. Yeah. No, no. I mean Whittier. He’s from Whittier. Is he Oh, did I I could have sworn. Yeah. lived in Whittier, California for 2 or 3 years when I lived down, you know, when I lived in California as a child. So, I know I know Whittier. Yeah. Pomegranates growing right up over the wall to from the neighbors and uh you know, I could climb up on that wall and pick all the pomegranates I wanted. Man, it was it was fun. Yeah. No, I think if you look it up, you’ll find Nixon was also from Whittier. Oh, okay. Well, maybe. Oh, he was. Yeah, I know that now. I know that he definitely lived in I just as a kid I I’ve come full circle because I used to care about politic not care about politics and I don’t anymore now either. So there you go. Back then I was oblivious to that but of course Oh yeah I know he’s he hails from Whittier. Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess he moved to Yorb Belinda then is what he must have did then. He must have moved to probably because they’ve got his uh library in Lor Belinda now. His presidential libraries out there and but yeah, I don’t know. Oh, yeah. Those presidential libraries. There’s something I don’t know. There’s just something silly about that. I’ve always thought they all have to have a library. Like they’re all these all these scholarly learned men, you know, and everything and they got to have a library named after them. Oh, yeah. That’s important. Well, it was important to me to have the LBJ and the JFK library to get stuff from so that I could see what was going on during both presidencies. But, you know, honestly Oh, yeah. You know, those libraries are pretty funny, though. Like, if you ever been to Reagan’s, it’s pretty hilarious because I mean, it’s it’s a lot of show business. Sure. Uh I forget what town his is in in uh California, but he’s he’s got one out there, doesn’t he? It’s it’s out here. I forget the exact town, but it’s not far from the Nixon one. I know that much. Yeah. Oh, there you go. It’s somewhere out here. Yeah. You got to wonder what the Trump Library will be like, huh? They’re already planning it, right? They’re already planning it. Yeah. It’s going to be grand. Lot of gold. I I’m I’m sure lot of gold. Goldplated. It’ll It’ll just uh Yeah, it’ll be the best one. I’m sure the biggest and best of all of them. Yeah, it it’ll look just like the Trump Plaza did in Atlantic City till it goes bankrupt. They’ll find a way to bankrupt the presidential library. That’ll happen. It will happen today. In a strange turn of events, it will happen. They’ll make it happen. Nevertheless, it’ll be tremendous. No, no matter what, it’ll be tremendous. We know that. Today, in the most tremendous fashion, like no one has ever seen before, the Trump Library went bankrupt. Yes. Oh god, that’s gonna be great. Looking forward to that. Too funny. There we go. Yep. All right. So, Ed got a mailer, too. That’s exciting. We’re really making a thing out of this then. This is Oh, he may he may got He’s gotten some clutch. Yeah, Chuck sent him something. Cool. That’s cool. Oh, very good. I Yeah. Yeah. Because Ed, you know why? Bill Russell card, too. He was from that. He was from the teams back then. Bill Russell. And I’m kind of jealous of your guys’ myy though, man, because he he was uh I remember him from the even when I was really littleer from the 60s because uh my grandfather would he loved and hated him, you know? He he would make the dumbest plays sometimes, but he was also a great shortstop whenever he messed up. My grandfather be cursing on the porch, man. Right. Will. Yeah. One of those players. That’s funny. and he he he’s he’s got a whole thing, man. He when they did a thing in uh they went they went to Japan or somewhere after one of the World Series after they lost to the Orioles in ‘ 66. I read a whole, you know, baseball book about this and uh he uh stopped off in Hawaii and did some song and dance routine there and didn’t show up for the thing and he got in all kinds of trouble with the team. He was like an entertainer on the side and he he he stopped off in Hawaii or somewhere like that. Yeah. And you know he was he was performing in a club there doing something I forget what. Right. A character one of those characters. And it’s crazy to think that you know there was an era in baseball not so long ago where they couldn’t survive on their season salaries. They actually had Oh yeah. They worked some of them. Yeah. In the offseason. in the offseason. Some of these guys were house painters and all kinds of crap and uh you know and because baseball couldn’t pay the bills in the offseason. So yeah, uh and uh yeah, especially when you start talking Brooklyn Dodgers. I mean, you know, a lot of those guys definitely Well, those guys all have jobs. Did you hear the the first game? Yeah. The first game of the Dodger game, you know, they had Brooklyn Dodgers caps. They were representing 42. Oh, the opening game. Opening game. Did you see that? I have one of those. I alternate that with my LA cap when I if I go to the ballpark or wherever, you know. Well, they they they started that. Oh, man. Yeah, that’s a cool hat. A Boston hat, you know, because they make the baseball hats in every color for every team now, right? I have to shake my head. No, let me explain. So, they get a lesson in baseball when they say that to me. Right. Brooklyn Dodgers. No, I I I love that stuff, you know. I like what my my favorite, you know, common fact, of course, is that the New York Mets, their original uh blue and and uh orange represents the two National League New York teams that left New York, which is the orange and white. It comes from the Giants and Dodger blue is Mets blue. It’s the same color. Uh yeah. Yeah, that’s all true. Yeah. Uh but true story. Cracks me up. Of course, they they they just got done breaking a 12game losing streak. Thanks. Yeah, I know. I I saw that. Had to win eventually. Yeah, it happened. Yeah, but they they’re missing Sodto though when he gets back. That’ll that’ll that’ll make a change. Yeah, but half of their star he’s healthy. Half of their star players are injured cuz you know why? Cuz they’re the Mets. Yeah, they’re injured already. Yeah, I know. That happens. Who is terrible year when everybody gets injured? Who? I’m amazed that the Dodgers still have their uh starting rotation mostly intact. For the last couple of years, they have this great starting rotation and before the All-Star break, they’re all on the injured list. Unfortunately, they have some good guys they bring up, you know, that that, you know, help. But yeah, it’s crazy. Pitchers go down a lot with the Dodgers. Yeah, Kim got one of those trial, you know, things for a week and so I was happy to watch a couple of Mets games. And uh the other night though, I got to watch the Dodgers right after the Mets. Mhm. And uh Oh, yeah. Cool. And it was great cuz Otani was pitching. Yeah. And six innings. Oh, yeah. He’s been pitching great. Yeah. Six innings, shut out ball, no problem. You know, and then they put in the bullpen, guys, and those guys blew it. And I was like, man, I remember that game. They wrecked that one. Yeah. He threw a good one last night, too, but they the bullpen didn’t blow it. He, you know, he he’s kind of slumping at the bat, but he’s he’s been an ace on the hill, man. Maybe just pitch just be a pitcher. I mean, let’s not overdo the guy, you know. They got Mo. Well, they even had him sit out one game instead of having, you know, went dhing, too. They they got but he was back bhinging last night. They got Yo Moto for five, too. But they got Yoto Moto. He’s just as good as him. Threw six or seven shut out innings again last night. Mhm. Moto. No, no, no. Otani did six or seven shutout innings the other night. Yeah. Yamamoto. Yeah, Yamamoto. Yamamoto’s doing great also. Uh, you know, I think that Are the Dodgers in first place or or not? What is that? Last I knew they were tied with the uh Padres’s San Diego. There you go. Oh, they were tied because they kind of on the bottom. Had a couple rough series where they didn’t do so good and the I guess the Padres’s are raging right now. They’re beating everybody. Oh, they are. Yeah, that happens. And they caught them. Yeah, it’s early still. It’ll, you know, a lot of things will change. Yeah, the Mariners are sucking right now, but I mean, hell, they they always start out that way and everybody gets so depressed up here, but they damn near uh were in the World Series one game away last year by the end of it. So, that’s true. Yeah. Well, I don’t know how they keep uh having a decent team. They just they won’t spend much money on players, but they they still they do something. They put pretty good team on the year the last uh on the field last couple years. Yeah. No, that’s cool and all, but I was always rooting for a Mariners, Dodgers World Series, man. Really? Just one lousy game. Oh, wait. Uh last year. Yeah, it’ll be cool for Mariners have never even been in the World Series. I feel bad for all my workmates and stuff that are are lifelong Mariners fans, you know. So, Oh, they haven’t been here. Yeah, I guess no. Oh, no. I don’t believe so. Never have. See, that’s the thing. Right now, we’re looking at a typical Mets season, too, Ed, because you know what? The Mets have the best winning percentage on opening day of any major league team. So, they almost always win opening day for some reason. They do. Uh, but then they always go on a terrible tear at the beginning of the year where it’s like they’re going to spend all the way to the All-Star break digging themselves out of this hole. You watch. Uh, if they dig out of the hole, but they do it somehow. You know, it’s amazing. Baseball’s a long It’s the long game, man. and teams that start out scrappy sometimes uh go on a big rage after the all-star break or something and and overtake whoever was ahead of them. You never know. Well, that’s my only hope for these guys this year. But I mean, if they go through another one of those 12 game losing streaks, I mean, that’s that’s that. I mean, let’s see who else. Who did they play? Rough, man. Oh, they just got they just uh I know who they played. The Mets played the Twins just the other day with they’ve won the last two and lost the one against them in series, Chuck. Right. Right. Well, that’s the thing. One of those games is the last of the 12game losing streak and then they picked up two so far, I think. Yeah. Um but uh yeah, I mean I barely gotten to watch any this year, but uh but when I could though, it was great. And I was just I was really actually more happy to watch uh Otani pitch because I mean he was throwing some wicked stuff. Yeah. That uh you know Yeah. when he’s on he he’s as he’s as good as Yamamoto when he’s on it, you know. He’s he’s something else too, right? And they’re getting some like almost physics denying drops on the ball. I mean I I Oh yeah. you know, the short time they got those three Japanese pitchers that that both have that uh what what do they call it? A split finger or whatever. And the that uh that other fellow Seki, he’s not doing so hot, but he saved their butts in the championship series when they turned him into their closer. Oh, yeah. And some of his pitches, it’s it’s not a knuckle ball, but it moves like a knuckle ball. And sometimes it’s just crazy when he’s on. Yeah. Yeah, he’s he’s not consistent like Otanamoto. But if he learns how to control a little better that 99 mph knuckle ball, okay, cuz that’s what it is. It’s like a 99 mile per hour knuckle ball, which shouldn’t be possible. These knuckle ball pitchers usually toss 60, 70, 80 miles an hour. Okay. That’s what they do. Yeah, because Yeah, good. He’s not really You couldn’t You can’t throw a knuckle ball that that hard, but it’s some kind of a split finger thing he does or whatever that he can both throw it really pretty hard and it has some of that same weird It’s going to go right or left. He doesn’t even know which way it’s going to go. Yeah. But it it wobbles like a knuckle ball. It wobbles like a If you remember, who was it? Yeah. When you watch a slow motion Yeah. What was it? You see it’s barely rotating, right? What was it? Tim Tim Wakefield, I think was his name, that used to throw a wobbler like that, but Wakefield couldn’t break 85 when he threw an knuckle ball. It It was a slow ball. Um, so people could steal on it because it was so slow, right? But this kid throws something that wobbles almost like a knuckle ball except it’ll pop 99 on the gun. And that’s just crazy when you have that going. I don’t, you know, if if somebody could totally uh uh, you know, master the the control of that. Yeah. I mean, be tough on every hitter cuz the only time Yeah. Cuz the only way you could get that kind of effect is if you were cheating. If you were scuffing the ball and and they they’ve checked this ball. This kid ain’t cheating. He’s just somehow able to throw. I mean, it looks like a 99 mile per hour knuckle ball. That’s just insane. Yeah. But uh it’s funny. Yeah. Yeah. So, well, my grandfather used to always say, you know, uh uh about everything. Well, them japs, they don’t create much, but they sure do per perfect everything they get in their hands. And we’re seeing it in baseball now. Yeah. I mean, you know, the the only pitches, okay, when I pitched the short time I tried to pitch uh in in uh you know, in in little league and stuff. Um and and also there’s something before little league. Uh oh, no, excuse me. You got you got your regular little league and then Babe Ruth league, right? Is it what we had in Jersey? Uh and I tried, you know, I tried and I pitched in both, but me, I could only get a sinker, a crappy My curve sucked. Uh, I could my curve just didn’t curve half the time and um but my sinkers were pretty nasty and I tried a fast ball but I couldn’t really get good velocity even for my age group. Um, and I tried and I wasn’t a small kid. It was I was a fairly large kid but what you got to do and uh who was it? One of the twins pitchers uh has this really wicked uh like lower body movement. Um, and some of these guys without steroids, it looks like are able to throw like 103, 105 on occasion, which is Oh, yeah. It’s impossible to see the ball at that speed. So, you know, Yeah, it is. It is for It would be for me. And I don’t know if I’d have the guts to even stand in in there in the box once that guy started, these guys start winding up. I’d be like running towards the dugout as hard as I got hit by that. That’s I ain’t going to stand up there, let that thing hit me. Yeah. No. No way. Get the bat in front of you. Get that bat out. A strange thing happened recently and I want to tell you something, Ed and uncle. And I don’t know if this will be interesting to either one of you, but do you remember a player named Willie McGee? I’ve heard that name. Oh, yeah. Was he with the Cardinals? McGee since like Willie McGee played with a with a few teams, but he was also a Dodger at one point. Oh. Um, anyways, he uh I I got I got to speak to him. Yeah. And he told me he told me a story about Nolan Ryan and these guys not wanting to go up and face Nolan Ryan because somebody had, you know, hit a grand slam off him and they left him in the game. And uh McGee’s like McGee’s like, “Take,” he told the I forget who he said was the uh uh manager, but whoever the manager was, he looked at him, he said, “Take me out of the game.” Why? I don’t want want to go up there against Nolan. Why? Cuz he’s going to put one in my back, and I don’t want Somebody’s going to pay for that grand slam. Somebody Somebody’s paying for that grand Exactly. And And he said, “He’s going to put one in my back. I don’t want to take it.” and he kind of argued and he went up there and he said he said, “Thank God that uh that he didn’t put it in my back, he put it in the next batter’s back.” Yeah. Well, you know, Don Dale, old Dodger pitcher from the 60s. Yeah. His attitude was, you know, uh you hit one of my guys, I’ll hit two. I’ll hit two of yours and we can do it as do it till you’re tired. And the other thing, uh, if the manager told him to walk it, you know, put an intentional walk, you know, uh, because then they had, back then they had to throw the pitches, not like they do now. He said, “Hell, I I don’t need four pitches to put him on base. One, just need one.” And if you automatically put him on, since you like the Mariners, I’m gonna shut up after this, but since you like the Mariners, Ed, I got a question. Did anybody ever dare charge the mound when Randy Johnson was pitching? Oh, yeah. Yeah, because I don’t know cuz I I only started going back in 2012 and he was well, you know, already retired when I started, you know, kind of following them a little bit. I got to imagine somebody must have, you know, you might think so, but it could get pretty wild sometimes, even if he wasn’t intentionally hitting you, you know. Yeah, but but think about this. He was ridiculous looking coming at you at what 66 uh with an overhead. Yeah, like I think he’s taller than that. I think he was close to 6’8 or 10, man. Well, maybe. I could be wrong, but he was Yeah, he was big. Well, look, we’ll split the difference. We’ll call him 6’8. Okay. An overhand pitcher throwing 100 100 plus miles an hour sometimes at 6’8. Yeah, I’m not charging that guy. Yeah. Oh, hell no. Well, you better not charge Nolan Ryan either. Look what he did to that guy that did, man. That famous uh event where he the guy ran at him. He just put him in a headlock and started pounding him. Oh, no. No one would beat you up. No one see I love Nolan Ryan. He, you know, he doesn’t even sign. He’s still alive. He doesn’t sign cards anymore unless you send it to his foundation. Yeah. You have to send it to his foundation. He doesn’t want nothing to do with it. You pay them. The money all goes to charity and that’s that. Um, but it costs like 200 bucks or 150 175 something like that to get them to sign to get to sign a like if you mail a card. Yeah, you could mail them a card and get them to sign it. Sign it. But yeah, it’ll cost you like 150 or 175 something like that. And um, you know, but as soon as you get it back, that card’s worth, you know, 500 bucks easily. I’m just saying. Easily. if all these cards not all signed. People that are really hardcore collectors, you know. Sure. You guys should have your cards uh, you know, evaluated cuz we were just discussing that. They serious collectors, you might have some that are worthwhile. You got to be careful though because you you only want to put certain things. Well, listen, I’ve been studying this a lot lately because I’m thinking about running a side business here. And the thing is if if you want to go get them done uh really and get them sealed into a slab, okay, that’s great and everything and you could seal anything into a slab, but you better be careful about it because you’re going to spend even when you you’re sending in and getting a deal on it, it’s going to cost you uh like $15 a card and you’ve got to do like, you know, five or 10 at a time. So, you’re talking about $100 to to $75 to $150 investment to get your cards graded. Wow. Okay. Um well, what if what if you have a little shop, a place like, you know, local, you could just walk in there and say, “Hey, can you uh you know, Well, yeah, but these out and see if what No, that’s great. That’s an evaluation, though. If you actually want to get them graded, actually graded. You get them, you know, preserved and graded. And, you know, PSA, Professional Sports Authority, is your best place to go. Uh they’re the most, you know, reputable. But also, Beckett still does them. uh you know they do grading and there’s a couple of other companies that do but PSA is the you know is the uh gold standard and yeah that’s serious collectors there to do that. Yeah but either way but but that’s how you do it. Listen, you you get a again the no one Ryan rookie card, right? There was a reprint of it and this guy got him, you know, got him and he was going to sell him loose $300 uh cuz he had him signed and you put him in a slab five grand. Okay, just saying it’s a big That’s a good That’s a good upgrade for $15. Okay. I’m just saying you everything is so everything you do, anything that you know is so expensive nowadays. It doesn’t matter what it is. I guess like I uh recently took up backup smoking my pipes, tobacco pipes. And I ordered a pipe from Italy. Same price as it came out, right? You know, uh as it would have cost if anybody had had the same pipe, you know, Savanelli, you probably heard of them. Uh and and I got the pipe. It went through smooth. I didn’t know if they sold direct. And then I get a thing from UPS. I got to pay uh Lord Trump uh 40 something bucks tariff to get the damn thing on top of what I paid, man. Yep. See those those Otani cards that I sent you guys if you got those graded right, the two of them at a bare minimum would be $500. Uh if you got them, you know, in a slab. Yeah. No, I I already see what they’re going for. They will go for about $250 a piece. Those two cards I sent you. If they’re slabbed and they come up with uh either a a 9.5 or a 10 rating. And if they’re signed, probably more. No. Oh, yeah. Signed would be even more. But you’d have to have it authenticated. That’s another thing. But just saying, just slab them like that. Boom. Uh yeah. 250 bucks a piece is what that would cost in a slab. Now, they probably sell for 20 bucks at most loose like that. Yeah. Yeah. You see what I mean? Yeah. I see. So, but you know, you know what else? The time is we’re actually over time. I know. I know. I figured. I just want to let Uncle know even if he doesn’t have an expensive seat down on the field level, uh I know before the game starts, at least at the Mariners ballpark, I I don’t know if the Dodgers have different security, but you can go down on into the field level and go up to the field. Now, you got to be able to pass crap through that stupid net they have everywhere now. But you you might be able to, you know, before the get get there early, go down to the field level and go down, you know, right to the uh to the field and get an autograph if you get a chance to go over there, see if see if they let you go down before the game because they they they should do that because I mean, you know, a lot of people like to go down and uh get autographs and stuff. Yeah, that’s what I was talking about. game starts. Yeah, that’s what I was talking about before when they’re in batting practice and the pitchers are like loosening up on the side and all that a couple hours before stuff. Yeah, that’s what I was talking about. I’ I’ve seen them a lot of times. Yeah. Do that. So, you know, the other guys, you might be able to do that. Even if you’re sitting up on the third deck, you before the game starts, you could probably go down there, Uncle Possibly, and uh get a chance to get an autograph. Yeah. And I believe it or not, I told him this earlier because a chatter said, you know, you got to go like 8 hours in advance and they have to check in with the stadium, which is true, but that’s a hit or miss. And you got to figure out where they’re checking in, uh, which entrance they’re using or where the players parking. I got an autoraph. They get there early. It’s like a, you know, work out and go to the training room, all the stuff they do. But once you get in the ballpark, just just try going down before the game starts and see if you they let you go down to the uh you know to the edge of the field and cuz I got to know I got a I got a feeling they might still let people do that there. Well, anyway, look, we are over time here by about uh but yeah, go ahead, uncle. I got an autographed ball to you know who who did you get to autograph? Uh a whole bunch of players on it. Where was that for? What? Dodgers or I don’t know. All kind of players just signed it. I think um somebody grandfather or someone went to a ball game and got it autographed and the whole team autographed it. I got to find I can’t I They used to sell those balls at the ballpark. you know, they they would sign them uh you know, sign them ahead of time and then you could buy one with the with all the a bunch of players. Yeah, they still do that. The the team balls at some of the the team balls at some stadiums, they still do that. Yeah. Uh but you know, play players change so often though, you don’t know if you’re getting the whole team or you’re getting the whole team from last month, you know. Right. Right. So, yeah. Yeah. Everything changes so much quicker nowadays. Yeah. With the players moving around. All right. Well, it’s this has been a good show. This has been exciting. I know Ken has been in the chat room saying something about Jose Conco and Madonna in the ‘9s. Oh, yes. Conso Oakland Oak Oakland a uh co uh player kept him further away from Madonna than he should have been or so. So, thank you Ken for being here. That was cool. And thank you. I think I might know who might have dropped a diamond in a tic tac. Hey, thank you for that. I think I might have been my buddy actually. So, thank you for that. Whoever might have done that. Uh, there you go. Are we doing shout outs, Uncle? What are we doing? I don’t know. We’ve been on talking. Nobody had said anything about shout outs. Um, why don’t we just because it’s getting late, so I I think what we’ll do Thank you um uh thank you uh Ed for calling. Thank you for Yeah. I am calling in. That’s Yeah. Yeah. I’m going to make a quick shout out to those gophers for diverting you from blaming all the squirrels for every damn thing goes on in your yard, man. Shout out to the gophers for taking the pressure off a little. That’s right. The skate gophers. The skate gophers. I I’ll hear you guys next week. You guys take care. Well, you too. Take care and see you next week. And I sure if you’re calling and talk next week saying thank you as well. Great to have you, man. Come back uh next week, too, if you can be here, man. Great to have you. Uh yeah, we’ll be back. It’s good to be here. Fun to do the show. Uh Uncle the Podcast on Tic Tacpodcast on the other ones. Unclepodcast.com. Bring us home for the week, Uncle 41. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Still on. No.